Stéphan Perrotte
I am a man of passion. Giving free rein to my imagination, searching relentlessly, not setting up any boundaries, this is how I became, as a little boy once told me, "the cook of the fruits".
I was fortunate enough to be born into a family of craftsman and producers responsible for father and mother, in the heart of the Cotentin. This Norman family culture of gastronomy, deep and sincere, this love of the raw product, the link with nature, is my heritage today so precious and that I try to transmit as best I can to my children, but also to future generations. Always aspiring to satisfy my thirst for knowledge and discovery, I went to meet professionals in the catering trade. I wanted to acquire the knowledge and skills. It was my grandmothers, in Valognes, who passed on the passion for fruit to me. I still hear one of them, banging on the ceiling when she found the traces of my fingers in her jam jars. When I was little, on vacation in Valognes with my grandparents, I saw her prepare jams with garden fruits, blackcurrant, gooseberry, raspberry. The door to my room opened directly onto the closet where she kept them. I left some fingerprints there.
In 2013, I opened my jam-making business. I was born a craftsman, and every day I defend the image and the know-how of Craftsmanship with its values: transmission, passion, conviction, respect for the manual gesture and selection of products.
At that point, I don't yet know what to expect, but one thing is certain: what I want is to give another vision of jam, to modernize it, to give it back its nobility. I want to show that there are other ways to consume jam. All my efforts go in this direction: to offer cooked jams, elaborate products, which depart from the traditional image of jam on a slice of bread.
Being a perfectionist, I test my products, in particular at the Concours Général de Paris, where I receive numerous prizes and distinctions. In 2014, I won the Concours du Meilleur Confiturier de France and in 2015, I won the World Jam Championship, which makes me currently the only living jam in France to have won these two titles.
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